what book have you read and you have felt sad when you have finished it...

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not because its a weepy but because you have enjoyed it so much.

I am going to go out on a limb here and say harry potter..... I actually felt sad when I finished reading it because I thought, I am never going to read anything like that again. I remember feeling so excited before the next book came out.

I will fess up to being 33 now.

Then I found twilight god help me.

I remember when I was younger reading the flowers in the attic series and felt like I had never read anything so wonderful and tragic in my whole fourteen years of life.

The Long Walk this book.

Okay, its not fiction but I have read it again every few years. An outstanding book.

i feel ashamed of my choices meltedmarsbar

Don't!

I too read the "flowers in the attic" series and loved them as a teenager.

LOTR. I was relieved to have finally got through it, but had spent such a long time reading it that I was sad to see it go.

I read the entire Flowers In The Attic series... all the Heaven ones too. Pretty traumatic reading for a 13/14yo

LOTR? Eh?

Sorry, Lord of the Rings.

the steig larsson trilogy of books, just very good thrillers that kept me hooked right til the end, an unusual occurrence in fiction these days i find.

i read the flowers in the attic series too! must've been required reading for hormonal teenagers in the eighties

Catchy - same as you! The Twilight Saga is proving to be a bit of a nightmare. However many times I re-read the books I still want to re-read them! This results in me being tired and grumpy the next day as I am up till 1am reading!

Another Twilighter here... read all 4 in about a week, then wished I had taken my time with it... but just went back to beginning and read them again.
One of my friends has just started reading Twilight, and I am a bit jealous she is reading for the first time and loving it.

there was a facebook group or something called 'do you ever wish you had had amnesia so you could read harry potter for the first time again'.

i can relate to that, sad but true. although it would be a bit inconvenient.

The Magus

A Fine Balance by R Mistry. It was wonderful and I felt bereaved when I finished it.

I'd forgotten about the Flowers in the Attic series, gosh that brings back memories!

The magus too but it was a book of a time for me, rad and re-read it lots in my 20's came back to it a few years ago and it had lost its appeal rather. May need to give it another go now that you've reminded me Bendybob since i loved it back then. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brook is another great one

just looked on Amazon for 'A Fine Balance' not there - what is it about?

Just finished 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'
by Khaled Hosseini. It's better than the 'Kite Runner'.

A Fine Balance
That too would be my choice. I was bereft when I finished it. Not a joyful read, however!

Anything by Michael 'The Hours' Cunningham -
The Home at the End of the World
Flesh and Blood

He has a wonderful way with characters that makes you feel bereaved when you part from them.
And one of the few writers who makes me cry -
in a good way, of course.

Pride and Prejudice - I wanted it to go on a bit more and find out more about them! Ditto several of the Georgette Heyer books - I don't like them stopping dead at the hero/heroine finally getting together.

And I'm not really a romantic person at all!

The Help by Kathryn Stockett, I didn't want it to end.

The Secret History...ok, so it is sad at the end, but really I was sad to leave the characters whom I had come to love. I re-read it once a year as a treat.

Homeboy by Seth Morgan...absolute corker of a novel, set on the mean streets of San Francisco featuring a cast of characters including pimps, prostitutes, gangsters, criminals, who each have a story to tell that interlinks. Dialogue is killer. Tons of twists. Felt sad and empty at the end.

Recently - Wolf Hall; huge and satisfying. Sequel on the way, apparently.

So many books have made me feel that way but the ones to stand out are The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb.

Half a Yellow Sun. I adored that book.

And I second A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Also Fingersmith.

I have just finished the Twilight saga. 4 books in 4 days. I just need a leetle break and I'll start them again.

SOmetimes I just get a bit....obsessed with books. I also had the Flowers in the Attic thing (although I saw how awful they really were when I reread them as an adult).

Another one was Diana Gabaldon's Cross Stitch series. I really am an absolute sucker for a larger-than-life love story with supernatural/mythical connections.

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and better still, O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker. Cutting, quirky, charming, poetic, funny, nostalgic. Bit like mumsnet